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title: Then one of them slipped after him to the little hut, and heard him… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then one of them slipped after him to the little hut, and heard him say, "Sister, dear, open the door," and saw that the door was opened and immediately shut behind him. Who acts: one, King. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 35

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Then one of them slipped after him to the little hut, and heard him say, "Sister, dear, open the door," and saw that the door was opened and immediately shut behind him.

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**Who acts:** one, King · **What happens:** slip, hear, say, open, see, shut · **To what, where:** King, Sister, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:7:35
# text = Then one of them slipped after him to the little hut, and heard him say, "Sister, dear, open the door," and saw that the door was opened and immediately shut behind him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	ccomp	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
38	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | past | one of huntsmen |  |  |  | after King; then | to the little hut | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **hear** | past |  | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | King *not said here* | Sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **open** | past · passive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **shut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | behind King; immediately *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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